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blog.paylocity.com

Press Releases - Paylocity

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

570 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

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The Investor Relations website contains information about Paylocity business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.paylocity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 570 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.paylocity.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

releases.cfm

570 ms

ndq-icons.css

276 ms

ndq-styles.css

225 ms

ndq-toolbar.css

90 ms

ndq-responsive.css

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.paylocity.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Investors.paylocity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.6 MB (80%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.paylocity.com main page is 6.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 9.0 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.0 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 40.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 5.1 MB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Blog Paylocity needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.1 MB or 80% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 58.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 144.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 236.9 kB

  • Original 273.6 kB
  • After minification 216.1 kB
  • After compression 36.7 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Blog.paylocity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 236.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (30%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Paylocity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blog.paylocity.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.paylocity.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Blog.paylocity.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blog Paylocity. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: